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Watch now: How to be a ninja innovator

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Entrepreneur

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We’ve just added Gary Shapiro’s talk from TNW Europe Conference 2013 to our TNW Video site and you can watch it right now for free. (BTW, TNW Video is also hosting live video coverage of TNW Europe Conference 2015). Do you know what children and companies have in common? They should be taught how to be a ninja. Gary Shapiro, CEO of  the Consumer Electronics Association, thinks that the characteristics of ancient Japanese ninjas can also be applied to companies that want to be innovative and successful. Ninjas didn’t carry weapons, yet they still succeeded against great odds. They were…

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Super-durable ‘Liquidmorphium’ Turing Phone promises ultra-secure communications

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 1:00 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, Mobile, Product Launches

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Turing Robotic Industries (TRI) has announced a new device called the Turing Phone that promises to provide end-to-end encryption and a more sustainable production process than a regular smartphone. Announced today, the device uses decentralized authentication to encrypt any communications and comes with its master public key and unique private key pre-installed with the phone. Additionally, if you’re communicating with another Turing Phone, the two devices can directly verify their idendity, side-stepping the need to route it via a Key Distribution Center. And what’s the end result of all this encryption and security? “A protected communications network that is entirely insulated from cyber-threats…

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Xiaomi announces the $205 Mi 4i, its first smartphone to debut outside China

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 12:37 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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At its event in India today, Xiaomi announced the Mi 4i. It’s the first Xiaomi phone to see its initial release outside of China, and it costs only $200. It packs an impressive amount of features into its affordable frame: a 5-inch 1080p IPS display coming at 44i ppi, a 13MP megapixel main camera and 5MP one for your selfies. Inside, you’ll find 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and Snapdragon 615 processor to power the Android Lollipop software. Design-wise, the phone’s 7.8 mm thick. It’s a unibody polycarbonate(AKA fancy plastic) design with a soft-touch finish a coating to prevent…

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6 essential courses for designers: Get 95% off the UI/UX designer bundle

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 11:45 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers, TNWDeals

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So you’ve got a great idea for an app — but do you know what it will look like, or how it feel to use? A solid foundation in user interface and user experience design will help you give shape to your idea, so that users enjoy your product, find it easy to use and keep coming back for more. And that’s exactly what our latest deal offers, at an incredible low price. The UI/UX Designer Bundle from Udemy includes six great courses for you to learn everything you need to know to build beautiful, usable interfaces for web and…

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Two-pizza teams: Werner Vogels on Amazon’s secrets for innovation at TNW Europe Conference

Apr23
by on April 23, 2015 at 10:00 am
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Insider

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Speaking at TNW Europe Conference in Amsterdam today, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels shared a few of the company’s strategies to ensure sustained innovation in its product development processes. Vogels explained that employees are encouraged to break down problems and challenges so they can be tackled by ‘two-pizza teams’, or groups small enough to feed with only a couple of pies. Pitching a new Amazon product? Vogel says you’ll want to skip the slide deck and write out a proposal in complete sentences. All new products start off as six-page descriptions that stakeholders read in silence for a half-hour, before diving…

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